CMP opens its operations to technology developers to promote mining pilot projects and innovation

The technical visit to Minas El Romeral and Puerto Guayacán brought together universities, startups, and key innovation ecosystem stakeholders, fostering collaboration between industry, academia, and technological development.

With the aim of strengthening strategic collaboration between the mining industry, academia, and technology developers, Compañía Minera del Pacífico (CMP) opened the doors of its Minas El Romeral and Puerto Guayacán operations, in the Coquimbo Region, as part of a technical visit promoted by the National Pilot Center (CNP). The initiative focused on validating real operational requirements, identifying pilot opportunities, and promoting the adoption and scalability of innovative solutions for mining.

The activity brought together university teams, more than ten technology developers, and key innovation ecosystem stakeholders, who toured CMP’s facilities to gain firsthand insight into its processes, operational challenges, and improvement opportunities, creating a space for direct dialogue with company teams.

This visit is part of the collaboration agreement between CMP and the National Pilot Center (CNP), a partnership aimed at fostering technological development, applied innovation, and the adoption of new solutions within the mining industry. In particular, the event emerged from the “Pilotage Circle” program, led by the CNP Innovation Center—an initiative that connects companies, startups, technology developers, and academia through training spaces, networking opportunities, and on-site experiences that bring participants closer to real industrial environments.

“This has been an extremely relevant activity for us. We want to become an innovation ecosystem that welcomes entrepreneurs, making our facilities, processes, and, of course, our talent available. We believe this is the way to move forward with concrete projects that drive innovation as well as the improvements and transformations our company needs,” said Francisco Carvajal, CEO of CMP.

Participants in the visit included representatives from the National Pilot Center, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile, and companies such as Igo Spa, AtacamaRiskZero, Rombus, Califix, Vitglobal.com Spa, Minnovex, Minverso, Testia, Domolif, Asicorp Spa, AtomXplore, Terraquantum, Mosaikus, Fujai Data Mining, and Rukian Tech, among other actors from the technological and mining innovation ecosystem.

Regarding the initiative, Andrés González, CEO of the National Pilot Center, highlighted the company’s openness, stating:

“We thank CMP for the time and dedication of its people. They are giving an important part of their day, and we truly value their willingness to welcome technology developers, scientists, and a technology center like ours to explore new opportunities together.”

Within this collaborative framework, some participants are also part of the project “Technological development of sustainable leaching for the recovery of rare earth elements from tailings and minerals from the Northern Chile Iron Belt,” an initiative awarded by Corfo to the CNP, in which CMP participates as an associated entity, contributing technical and operational capabilities as well as access to real materials for the development and validation of technologies under industrial conditions.

In this way, the technical visit stands as a concrete milestone within the ongoing working relationship between CMP and the CNP, aimed at accelerating solution pilot projects, sharing learnings, and strengthening the role of the company and northern Chile as a key territory for mining innovation, technological development, and the advancement of more sustainable, collaborative mining with productive and territorial impact.